Post Match. Pies win thriller . All comments please.

[Pies4shaw]

[Rd10.1998_11.1#36]

[bally12]

We missed Varcoe's speed and chasing today. He brings something unique to our team, even if he doesn't get high possessions.

[BazBoy]

Great sides win tight games and we ARE a great side

[Clifton Hill-Billy]

Great come from behind win, honestly thought we were screwed with 10 minutes to go. I thought we allowed Carlton to play to their strengths and our game plan broke down, got nutted in the centre clearances as usual, something we really need to address and will cost us big time against decent teams. Ditto set shot goal kicking. Interesting fact about Wills game time, sitting in the stands it was like he wasn't playing until the last quarter. It was my Richmong supporting wife's first time going to the footy and to watch her smug grin when she thought that the scum were going to win completely evaporate in the last seven minutes, along with all the bluescum baggers around me was the perfect end to a pretty ordinary performance. Cop that 79 team, hope you enjoyed that, now go back to tanking and irrelevance!

[BazBoy]

De Goey at 188 cm and 91 kg is so frinkin strong and very hard to body him off the ball

The scum captain at 195 & 92 very simalar

[GreekLunatic]

we played 10 mins of good footy and won. It was their GF also wills should be dropped he is good at vfl level nothing more

[thebaldfacts]

Great to tough it out and win coming from behind. Real character building game for us, despite not being at our best.

Haven't watched the replay yet, but my observations at the ground was that when we dominated we just didn't put it on the board (except for that glorious last 10 minutes). Conversely when they had the chance, they seemed to score much more easily.

The lopsided free kick count and the false hope Blues supporters had towards the end, just made the victory sweeter.

[WarrenerraW]

I was expecting that the game would be played out the way it did. They were always going to come out firing as they seem to do when they play us. Add to it Kim Jong Ed's comments and a 79 wankfest and it's there's for the taking, if we're not up to it; and for most of the game, we weren't up to it. We were very flat footed and lackluster - only coming good in the last 10 mins or so of the last quarter to win it. Our pace wasn't there nor our ability to run and carry and to take the game on. Our forward line looked dysfunctional at times while our mids struggled with clearances and reading Grundy's taps. We looked slow to match up and create space and relied on going down the line quite a bit. Set shot kicking needs to improve because it's a momentum killer when we miss. It was almost like we rolled out of bed and just expected it to happen.

What the win did show was our ability to show resilience under pressure and remain composed when the game was on the line. I'd prefer winning more comfortably than that but a wins a win and you take what you can get. There's room for improvement but some good signs nonetheless.

Grundy is a machine. Pendles and Sidebottom as well. Love Crisp and Maynard taking the game on. Moore and Howe were pretty good down back. Brown seems to be getting better each week and has very good evasive skills, just need to work on goal kicking. Rotating JDG in and out of the midfield is a great idea because he's a ball winner and only knows one way - forward. If his goal kicking improved then he'd be elite. This is the one thing holding him back. WHE keeps improving. Phillips was really good in the second half.

We lacked midfield pressure having Adams and Beams missing. I know it was only Wills' first game but we can't rely on our players only playing 51% of the game. It puts too much pressure on the rest of the team to perform and pick up the slack. People want Sier back but he's another one who can only play half a game. It's not something we can rely on. I think Reid had an off day. Langdon looked out of sorts too.

[Mr Miyagi]

How often have we been in Carlton's shoes? Only to have victory snatched from our hands in the last 10 minutes by Geelong, Hawthorn, Sydney, et al. This was a real show of our maturity.

Re: Wills. For a bloke that's been in the system for quite a while now, he doesn't look like he hits the weights very often. He's a big kid but looks like he's only had one pre-season. That's disappointing.

[eureka]

What was the free kick count

[thebaldfacts]

24-8 our way.

[Woods Of Ypres]

anyone involved in the punch ups?

[Pies4shaw]

[Duff Soviet Union]

I thought Howe and Greenwood were pretty good yesterday. Not great, but more than passable. And I'm a Langdon fan in general, but he was pretty terrible yesterday.